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      2018 OK Publishing

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Table of Contents

       I. Introduction

       II. Historical Sketch of the Cherokee

       The Traditionary Period

       The Period of Spanish Exploration—1540–?

       The Colonial and Revolutionary Period—1654–1784

       Relations with the United States

       From the First Treaty to the Removal—1785–1838

       The Removal—1838–39

       The Arkansas Band—1817–1838

       The Texas Band—1817–1900

       The Cherokee Nation in the West—1840–1900

       The Eastern Band

       III. Notes to the Historical Sketch

       IV. Stories and Story Tellers

       V. The Myths

       Cosmogonic Myths

       1. How the World was Made

       2. The First Fire

       3. Kana′tĭ and Selu: The Origin of Game and Corn

       4. Origin of Disease and Medicine

       5. The Daughter of the Sun

       6. How They Brought Back the Tobacco

       7. The Journey to the Sunrise

       8. The Moon and the Thunders

       9. What the Stars are Like

       10. Origin of the Pleiades and the Pine

       11. The Milky Way

       12. Origin of Strawberries

       13. The Great Yellow-jacket: Origin of Fish and Frogs

       14. The Deluge

       Quadruped Myths

       15. The Fourfooted Tribes

       16. The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting

       17. How the Rabbit Stole the Otter’s Coat

       18. Why the Possum’s Tail is Bare

       19. How the Wildcat Caught the Gobbler

       20. How the Terrapin Beat the Rabbit

       21. The Rabbit and the Tar Wolf

       22. The Rabbit and the Possum After a Wife

       23. The Rabbit Dines the Bear

       24. The Rabbit Escapes from the Wolves

       25. Flint Visits the Rabbit

       26. How the Deer Got His Horns

       27. Why the Deer’s Teeth are Blunt

       28. What Became of the Rabbit

       29. Why the Mink Smells

       30. Why the Mole Lives Underground

       31. The Terrapin’s Escape from the Wolves

       32. Origin of the Groundhog Dance: The Groundhog’s Head

       33.

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